TWO MORE

Yesterday a female head teacher Anne Lakey was jailed for 8 years for grooming two male pupils 25 years ago and having sex with them.

The teacher, who was once celebrated for her "visionary leadership", had sex with the schoolchildren, aged 13 and 15, over a three-year-period, a jury found on Tuesday.

One of her victims described her in court as a "disgusting sexual monster".

...Now a father himself, he said he was "sickened" by Lakey's claims that she always put the interests of young people first.

[source : Top Headteacher Jailed For Having Sex With Boys, Sky News, http://news.sky.com/story/1507621/top-headteacher-jailed-for-having-sex-with-boys, 25th June 2015]

And now another female teacher Hayley Dimmock has been banned from teaching because on a school trip to Cuba she flirted with some of the pupils and then had sex with a diving instructor, thereby risking the safety of the pupils, i.e. other people's children, she was taking care of while they were away in Cuba from their parents.

Hayley Dimmock, 28, who taught at £9,000-a-term Bedford School, also allowed a male pupil to run his hands up her ankle and inner thigh, touch her bottom and put her iPod in the front pocket of her shorts.

The "young and inexperienced teacher" then drank at a party and went to a diving instructor's room for sex instead of making sure pupils were safely back in their rooms.

However two members of staff passing the room were able to see what was happening through a gap in the curtains and had to stop pupils walking past.

Despite being given four formal warnings about her behaviour on the trip in July 2014, on returning to the Bedford School Ms Dimmock spent half an hour alone with the pupil at his home.

[source : Chemistry teacher on a private school trip to Cuba 'caught having drunken sex with a diving instructor', Daily Telegraph, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11700543/Chemistry-teacher-on-a-private-school-trip-to-Cuba-caught-having-drunken-sex-with-a-diving-instructor.html, 26th June 2015]

Sex before safety. This is the attitude I experienced during my teacher training. I tried to tell 'em but they showed interest in only one thing...and it wasn't Scrabble (if you know what I mean...).

Parents. Seriously. Get into the schools your children attend and get involved. Help out. But also get to know the teachers. Let them know that the children they teach are your children.